Evaluación curso 2013-2014

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Un abrazo y gracias a todos

SPAIN AFTER 1492

We have walked along the medieval time in our country with the VISIGOTHS, AL ANDALUS and THE CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS. We are going to review a bit all of it with a new THINKING ROUTINE: THE HOT WORDS.  What is a HOT WORD? It is a word that can help you to remember lot of things about a topic. So let's think during a minute about three hot words about each one of the topics we have learnt during this unit. 

Now let's watch a video to introduce what happened in Spain after 1492: THE SPANISH EMPIRE. At the end of the video you should be able to answer these questions: 

• Which was one of the conquerors?
• Which continent was the biggest part of the Spanish Empire in?
• Which metal was important during this period?

SPAIN AFTER 1492

Columbus reached America in 1492.

In this year also the Catholic Monarchs unified the kingdoms of Spain. 

Charles I and Philip II acquired new possesion during the 16th century.

In 18th Century the kings stablished ABSOLUTE MONARCHY. 

THE TERRITORIES OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE. 

Between 16th and 19th century Spain has possesions in every part of the world: Canary Islands, America, Philippes in Asia and several teritorritories in Norh Africa. The kings also inherited territores in central an southern Europe.

By the end of 19th century most of these possessions no longer belonged to Spain.

WRITERS AND ARTISTS

In the 16th and 17th  centuries was a great century for art and literature in Spain: THE GOLDEN AGE.

Literature: Miguel de Cervantes wrote El quijote. Famous poets like Quevedo and Góngora. Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca wrote many plays. 

Paintings: Diego Velazquez was one of the famous painters of this time. 

THE CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS

We have been talking about: VISIGOTHS and about AL ANDALUS.  We are going to review how are you learning with a THINKING ROUTINE: THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS. Just to remind you:

• GREEN: what you have already learnt.
• ORANGE: what you are trying to improve or going deeper.
• RED: what you haven't learn at all. 

Let's have a look about a famous Spanish TV serie, at the end of the video you will answer some questions:

• Who were the kings when they got Granada?
• Were there any kind of war or battle?

THE CHRISTIAN RECONQUEST

Around year 1000 Al Andalus weakened and broke up into TAIFA.

Christian Kingdoms expanded.

The Christian Reconques was completed in 1492, when the Caholic Monarchs conquered Granada. 

THE CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS

Around 1230 the Christian Territory was divided into:

• The Kingdom of Navarre included Navarre and part of la Rioja.
• The Crown of Aragon included the Kingdom of Aragon, Valencia and Majorca with the Catalonian Counties.
• The Crown of Castile included the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Leon. Later will include Andalusia.
• Portugal was an independent kingdom.

In 1479 Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, married and united the Crown of Aragon and Castile. They were known as Catholic Monarchs.

THE KINGDOM OF GRANADA.

It was the last Taifa Kingdom 

(Granada, Malaga and Almeria)

It was weakened by internal disputes. Finally it was conquered by the Catholic Monarchs. 

Al-Andalus.

Today we are going to work with a new THINKING ROUTINE. It is called THE MISTERY QUESTION. You have to think on what we learnt the last lesson: THE MIDDLE AGES. Once you have in mind you have to create a question that maybe one of your partners could not understand. The teacher will try to answer and explain better that points.

Once we have solved all the questions and everything is clear we are going to watch a video to learn a bit more about AL-ANDALUS. Pay attention because at the end of the video you have to answer the following question:

• Where did the first Muslim enter through to start the conquest of Spain?

MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS. 

In 711A.D. Muslims from northern Africa invaded Visigothic Spain. 

Hispania was called Al-Andalus.

Muslims brought their customs, laws and religion. 

The highest authority was the CALIPH and the religion was ISLAM

They lived in cities. They were merchants and craftsmen.

Christians live in the country in the north of Península, the highest authority was the KING. They were farmers. 

AL ANDALUS

The peninsula was occupied by Muslims for almost eight hundred years.

They lived in walled cities on hills. 

They built palaces and Mosques.

They most important city was Córdoba the capital.

THE CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS.

Muslims occupied the south, but there were indepedent Christian Kingdoms in the pas in the north like: Kingdom of Asturias, later the kingdom of Leon. 

At the end of the period the KINGDOm OF CASTILE was formed. 

LET'S PLAY AND CONTINUE LEARNING. 

The middle Ages

Let's start a new topic of Science. As always we will start with a THINKING ROUTINE. The thinking routine is THINK - PAIR - SHARE. We are going to review what we have learnt about history so:

• THINK: about what we have learn about prehistory, Iberians and Romans and try to represent it on your notebook on a timeline.
• PAIR: check it with your partner and complete it in case you need. 
• SHARE: We will try to complete one timeline with all your ideas. 

Let's have a look to this video and answer this questions:

• What shape was the visigothic church?
• Can you describe a bit how the floor of the church was?

THE INVASION OF GERMANIC TRIBES

In 409 A.D.  the Vandals invaded Spain.

The Visigoths established a kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula.

THE VISIGOTHS

The Visigoths crossed the Pyrenees went to the center of Hispania. They established Toledo as their capital.

Later they conquered the places occupied by the Germanic Tribes. 

They changed their language, religion and laws to unify their new kingdom. They adopted the Hispano-Roman culture and converted to Christianity. They based on Roman law.

They lived in villages. They used land for agriculture and livestock farming. They were expert metalworkers. 

The Visigothic kingdom ended after the Muslim invasion in 711 AD.

Evaluation of the MIND MAPS about PREHISTORY AND ANTIQUITY

With this post you are going to evaluate your partner's videos and popplets following the rubric and answering to this questionaire.

Rubrica video popplets from Javier Ramos Sancha

When you finish reading the rubric and you have everything clear in your mind, you can start watching your partners video and answering the questions to evaluate it. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE CLEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO LOOK FOR AND WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION.

Mind Maps about PREHISTORY AND ANTIQUITY

You will send your evaluation through this Google Form. DON'T FORGET TO CLICK ON SUBMIT AT THE END.

To write the comments, you have to follow this pattern:

• REDACCIÓN EN KIDBLOG: Tienes … porque…
• ORGANIZACIÓN EN EL MIND MAP: Tienes … porque…
• ESTRUCTURA DEL TEXTO: Tienes … porque…
• ORTOGRAFÍA: Tienes … porque…
• TÉCNICA GRAMATICAL Y TIEMPOS VERBALES: Tienes … porque…
• VOZ Y RITMO: Tienes … porque…

Mind maps about PREHISTORY AND ANTIQUITY (Science Year 5-Unit12)

Utilizando las TIC para repasar, una vez terminada la unidad sobre LA PREHISTORIA Y LA EDAD ANTIGUA: la Prehistoria,  la Península Iberica en los tiempos Prerromanos, y  la "Hispania" Romana,  trabajamos como siempre, realizamos nuestro mapa conceptual con Popplet.

Después los alumnos graban su explicación con la aplicación Screencast-O-Matic. 

Publican su entrada en su Portfolio Personal creado dentro de los blogs personales de Kidblog.

Y nos lo envían para poder corregirlo a través de la red social educativa de Edmodo.

Estos son los trabajos de los alumnos de esta unidad. 

Hugo's Mind Maps

Lucía's Mind Maps

Claudia's Mind Maps

María's Mind Maps

Carlos' Mind Maps

Mario's Mind Maps

Inés' Mind Maps

Teresa's Mind Maps

Andrés' Mind Maps

Javier's Mind Maps

Ángel's Mind Maps

Valeria's Mind Maps

Jon's Mind Maps

Rodrigo's Mind Maps

Aaron's Mind Maps

Andrea's Mind Maps

Pablo's Mind Maps

Jorge's Mind Maps

Developing Communicative Skills: ADVERBS AND SUPERLATIVES ADJECTIVES (Year 5)

With the following presentation we will practice SUPERLATIVE ARTICLES AND ADVERBS in our English lessons. They are some games for practicing questions and answers, we pretend to develop our students fluency and vocabulary. 

They are not needed to use in the same lesson, you can practice one or a part of one of them. 

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THEM AND LEARN.

ADVERBS

With the following song you will understand a bit more about what is an adverb:




REMEMBER:

• Adverbs go with verbs. YOU RUN FAST.
• We can create adverbs adding -ly to an adjective happy - happily
• There are irregular adjectives: good-well.

LET'S PRACTICE WHAT YOU HAVE LEARN WITH SOME ONLINE ACTIVITIES.